An Ohio State student is seeking about $6 million in damages through state and federal courts from OSU and a student the university expelled as a result of sexual assault, according to court documents.

The plaintiff, who filed one lawsuit on Feb. 13 in the Court of Claims and another on Tuesday in federal court, was assaulted on Feb. 22, 2002, in a residence hall by Jeremy Goldstein, court documents state. Goldstein, who is from Beechwood, Ohio, was a student at the time.

Goldstein was dismissed from the university for breaking two rules of the Student Code of Conduct, said Patrick Hall, the director of Student Judicial Affairs. Hall said Goldstein was found to be in violation of sexual conduct and safety rules in the student code.

Dismissal is the university’s most severe punishment. Students who are dismissed have severed their relationship with the university and will never be able to enroll again.

Goldstein is not the only defendant. The lawsuit names OSU and the Board of Regents as defendants, too.

It was not until October 2003 – more than a year after the alleged sexual assault – that OSU started the university judicial proceedings, said Joseph Dubyak, the plaintiff’s attorney.

The event of Feb. 22, 2002 was not the only incident where Goldstein was accused of sexual assault. Also according to the federal lawsuit, “Nineteen days earlier, on Feb. 3, 2002, Defendant, Jeremy Goldstein, was the subject of a complaint of alleged rape that he committed upon another female student.”

There was only a residence hall hearing, Dubyak said. Goldstein was transferred from one residence hall to another.

“Despite rules and regulations promulgated by Defendant Ohio State University that require the removal from campus property pending further investigation of any student alleged to have committed a serious offense such as rape, Defendant, Jeremy Goldstein was neither suspended or removed from university grounds pending investigation and, thus, was in position to commit the brutal rape,” the lawsuit said.

The lawyers representing OSU had no comment on the case yesterday. The plaintiff is waiting for a response from the university’s attorneys.